Genentech seems like a great place to work from the outside but it really depends on what area of the company you are in - Avis employé Employé (anonyme) Genentech

Genentech is terrible at execution, at least in Production Operations. We are great at developing amazing drugs but processes are nearly non-existent. The processes that do exist are not used or not communicated. No one knows who has the rights to make a decision so they ask every single person involved in the issue to help make one, making things horribly inefficient and creating chaos. If anyone is half capable of documenting a process, not even optimizing it, just documenting it, they think you are a genius. Communication at this company is great from the Executives but middle management and cross-functional communication is poor at best. Capable people mangers are also severely lacking.